Sample sentences for ECONOMIZE

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Definition

avoid waste

economize = avoid waste

The school will have to economize, but hopefully without cutting teacher's salaries.
They had to economize space until the new factory was built.
(said in jest): Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark Twain
This morning Shukhov economized.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

economized = avoided waste

I walked over to Madison Avenue and started to wait around for a bus because I didn't have hardly any money left and I had to start economizing on cabs and all.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

economizing = avoiding waste

What we had to do now was economize further, go halves again, tough measures for tough times: two legs sufficed, so also with eyes, kidneys.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Theresa's salary was barely enough; they were economizing less stringently than before, but still had to watch their expenses.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
I try to economize, but it just seems to evaporate.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
I could set about economizing in our way of living.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
He's travelling second class; he's been spending too much money of late, and feels the need to economize.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
So now my question is, what can you do to economize?
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
He could not bring himself to consider, calculate, or economize.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
Joe grumbled awhile; then he agreed with his friend that what daylight was left ought to be economized in getting things ready for leaving.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
You see I am obliged to economize, in case your prosperity should cease.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
It seems likely, indeed, that I shall be able to economise at his own.
Henry James -- Washington Square

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use economize.)

She rented a big place and then settled in a space-economizing style, gathering and piling things around her.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
She promised herself she would economise in order to pay back later on.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use economize.)

There is a powerful reason which usually induces democracies to economize upon the salaries of public officers.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
They dined extravagantly at their hotel at night, and next morning sneaked round the corner to economize at a Childs' Restaurant.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street

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